Sensei's Super Competition of Absolute Awesomeness!
The competition begins on Saturday, January 24th, at 8 PM YOUR time (wherever you are.)
The competition will end on Saturday, February 7th, at 8 PM.
Rules:
Honor system: Be honest and trust others to be honest
Lucid dreams must be posted in your dream journal on DV with link posted here to count (if you don't want to post it because of sensitive matters or anything like that, then you can PM it to me)
Dreams must be lucid for Dream Control, DV Extra Tasks, Team Tasks, Enemy Tasks, or Three-Step Tasks to count
TEAMS
Total team scores will be averaged out at the end of the competition, based on the number of team members. The team with the highest average score wins!
In order for you to get points for an LD, you need to write it in your DJ on DV and post the link here.
Remember a Fragment - ½ point
Remember a Full Dream - 1 point
First DILD of the Night - 10 points
Subsequent DILDs - 5 points
First WILD of the Night - 10 points
Subsequent WILDs - 5 points Note: DEILD after a non-lucid dream counts as a WILD
Chain a Lucid Dream - 2 points Return to a lucid dream after a brief awakening mid-LD
WBTB (success or failure) - 2 points (Only counts once per night)
Dream Control Tasks
Unlimited points for Dream Control!
Each task can be completed once per dream/chain.
Advanced versions of tasks earn points instead of basic versions, not in addition.
Basic Tasks
Reality Check / Stabilization - 1 point
Interact with a Dream Character - 2 points
Flying - 4 points
Telekinesis - 4 points
Super Strength - 4 points
Super Speed - 4 points
Basic Summoning - 4 points (summoning from the pocket / making someone appear from around the corner/behind. +5 points if it is a fictional character from a book/movie/TV show/anime)
Gain Invulnerability - 4 points (must test to prove, eg. jump off a cliff)
Eat Something - 4 points
Object/DC Changing - 4 points (fully change object or DC into different object/DC. +5 points if it is a fictional character from a book/movie/TV show/anime)
Push your hand through a solid object - 4 points (note: 'pushing finger through hand' RC does not count)
Partial Transformation - 4 points
Use an Electronic Device - 4 points (doesn't have to work, just try)
Unspecified Dream Control (any powers not listed here) - 3 points
Advanced Tasks
Change Gravity - 6 points (doesn't have to be for everything, at least one object)
Teleport - 7 points
Element Manipulation - 8 points
Fully Phase through Big Solid Object - 8 points (eg. the wall, keep your eyes open)
Advanced Flying - 10 points (flying at high speed / into space)
Advanced Summoning - 10 points (make something/someone appear right in your direct view / summon something larger than human-size) +5 points if it is a fictional character from a book/movie/TV show/anime)
Advanced Object/DC Changing - 10 points (change enormous object/DC into different object/DC, or many objects/DCs at the same time)
Mass Telekinesis - 10 points (use telekinesis on 5+ objects at the same time, or one enormous object - something that can't be lifted in waking life)
Time Control - 10 points (speeding up/slowing down/stopping time intentionally)
Full Transformation - 10 points
DreamViews Extra Tasks
The status for each task will either be "complete" or "incomplete", so there is no reason to complete any twice.
You can complete more than one DV Extra Task per dream.
Tasks include:
There will be one Challenge Task each week. The second task will be announced at the end of Week 1.
Points for each challenge can only be claimed once.
Spoiler for Week 1:
Week 1:
I often tell people about hurting themselves in dreams as being a way to raise awareness, but I sometimes forget to tell people that the opposite can also be productive:
Feel something good of any sort in a dream (this could be something like: the amazing feeling of becoming lucid, tasting something delicious, anything that just has a positive feeling about it.)
At the end of the week, link to the LD that you had with the best feeling and rate it from 1-10. Your points will be 2x that. 1-10 is rated from your own personal good dream feelings. So if it is the best you have felt in a dream personally, then it is 10.
Week 2:
The theme of this week's task will be based around your team.
Pirates: Find a ninja shrine and steal their sacred ninja scrolls. Ninjas: Find a pirate ship and steal their awesome pirate's booty.
Montagues and Capulets:
Choose between
Attend the Capulet ball and fall in love with Romeo or Juliet.
Defeat your rival in a sword duel. If you're Capulet, defeat Romeo. If you're Montague, defeat Tybalt.
Beatles: Ask a DC to sing a line of their favorite Beatles song. Report their response. Stones: Ask a DC to sing a line of their favorite Rolling Stones song. Report their response.
Three-Step Tasks
Choose 3 different Dream Control Tasks from the list above, excluding RC/Stabilization.
Beginner
Pick any of the Dream Control Tasks
Intermediate
Last task must be an Advanced Dream Control Task
Expert
All 3 must be Advanced Dream Control Tasks
Tasks must be completed in order.
Multiple tasks can be completed in one dream, but they can also be completed in separate dreams.
You may change tasks at any time, even if you are on task 2 or 3, as long as your updated task choices are posted before the night you complete them.
If you choose to include an Unspecified Dream Control task, describe your task here in advance.
In addition to receiving points for the Dream Control task, you will also receive bonus points:
Complete first chosen task - 5 points
Complete second chosen task - 10 points
Complete third chosen task - 15 points
Team Tasks
Asterisks* indicate that points can only be claimed for these tasks once during the competition.
Meet a teammate - 7 points (once per dream/chain)
Meet another teammate in the same dream/chain - 3 points (once per dream/chain)
Show your teammate a previous dream (in-dream)* - 10 points
Have a teammate take you somewhere from a previous dream of theirs* - 10 points
Have a teammate teach you something* - 10 points
Enemy Tasks
Enemies are opposition members from your own league.
Asterisks* indicate that points can only be claimed for these tasks once during the competition.
Meet an enemy - 5 points (once per dream/chain)
Meet another enemy in the same dream/chain - 3 points (once per dream/chain)
Fight an enemy* - 10 points (+10 points if it is a pillow fight)
Fight one or more enemies with your teammate(s)* - 20 points (+10 points if it is a pillow fight)
Convert your enemy to an ally* - 10 points (enemy must start out hostile)
Convert multiple enemies to allies in the same dream/chain* 20 points (enemies must start out hostile)
Personal Tasks
New Personal Tasks can be completed unlimited times.
You must post the DJ of the task to claim points.
You can change tasks at any time.
You can only have one lucid task or incubation listed at a time.
Must be a task or incubation that you have not completed in a lucid dream before.
Lucid Task - 15 points
Choose your own task to complete in a lucid dream.
Incubation Task - 15 points
Choose a person, place, thing, or theme that you want to see in a dream and try to incubate it.
Dream Journal Points
Points will be awarded at the end of the competition for posting comments in other contestants Dream Journals. Only DJ entries containing dreams from the competition are included.
Only one comment per DJ entry will earn points (a conversation on the same entry will still count as one.)
1 point will be awarded for every 5 DJ comments.
Add these up for yourself as you go. If you dont understand, I can walk you through it.
This is just a little kick to get people posting in Dream Journals. I feel a lot better about writing in a DJ knowing that people are going to read and comment on it; I am sure others feel like I do. It isn't worth many points because this is a dreaming competition, but it could add a few bonus points to your final score.
When posting comments in a DJ, it is helpful to "like" the entry so that the member will get a notification on DV. You should also like any comments on your DJ when you read/respond to them, so that people know you have seen it.
Make sure you read the dreams so you can make a comment with some substance (more than a quick one-word comment.)
Betting!
If you have the points to spend, you can bet up to 5 points each day that you will have a lucid dream that night.
If you do have a lucid dream that night, you will earn 5 points!
If you do not have a lucid dream that night, you must deduct 5 points from your current total score.
This is to get you more confident in your feeling of knowing that you are going to lucid dream. I hear a lot of you say, I know I am gonna lucid dream tonight! Well then, bet on it! :P
Now what?
Post your task choices for each of the following:
Three-Step Task
Personal Goal
Personal Incubation
Keep track of your nightly scores and post your updates/subtotals here when you can.
Have fun everyone, and good luck! :D
01-23-2015, 09:59 AM
AnotherDreamer
Woo! I'm excited, go pirates :biggrin:
Good luck everyone!
01-23-2015, 10:21 AM
JoannaB
My three tasks:
Basic Summoning
Eat Something
Teleport
Dream Goal:
Become a Dragon
Dream Incubation:
Taj Mahal
Question: does the dream incubation count even if one does not get lucid, so in my case any dream of the Taj Mahal? Or is being lucid in the incubated dream a must?
This looks like fun!
01-23-2015, 10:32 AM
FryingMan
Betting! Sweet, I like that, really focus the energy on a night! (No maximums, though?) Alright Montagues, let's pillow-whack the snot out of the Capulets!
3-steps:
+ interact with a DC
+ fly
+ element manipulation
Personal Goal: edit: Narrate the dream! (was Teleport)
Personal incubation: location: flying high in the sky above San Francisco/GG bridge!
Question: how many points for a *partial* DC transformation?
01-23-2015, 12:26 PM
LouaiB
YUS YUS YUS YUS YUS!!
PK now, uhm, 3 step tasks:
1)Flying
2)umspecified power: I have a little power I want to use that I call "blue hands". It's basically making my hands, well, err there's no way of delivering this except straight forward, so, in a nutshell, making my own hands very 'pleasing', like supernaturally pleasing! So it means I can fondle and so on to produce much stronger satisfaction than normally possible to my partner. It needent be blue shine. In fact, it needent shine at all! Just the sensation effect is the point.
3)advanced summoning
Personal lucid task:
Groping boobies *nose bleed*
Personal incubation:
Here's a hard theme to add some challenge: being in a hot tub with Louise from Zero no Tsukaima (and to even make it harder, it has to be night time and in the outside forest like yard or whatever).
I'm all set for a hell of a competition!! I have midyears now though :panic: but it doesn't matter! Nighttime is gonna be reserved!
01-23-2015, 01:28 PM
FryingMan
^^ I believe DV now has a new resident "King of the Horn-Dogs" :cackle:
01-23-2015, 02:01 PM
LouaiB
Quote:
Originally Posted by FryingMan
^^ I believe DV now has a new resident "King of the Horn-Dogs" :cackle:
AHHHAHAHAHA I always new I was a sexual beast:chuckle:
Or should I say, a sexual priest, you know, cuz I preach sex as nice, pure, and a truly exceptional heavenly bond between 2 soles? Anyone? No? N...never mind.
Anyways that boobs one is gonna be the first on my comp to do list!! (With interaction and summoning of course )
01-23-2015, 02:46 PM
KonchogTashi
On the verge of a glorious competition performance, my recall has vanished!
Nevertheless, here are my tasks:
3 STEP:
1. Interact with a DC.
2. Basic summoning.
3. Pass hand through a solid object.
Personal:
Go to a 1960s/70s Grateful Dead concert
01-23-2015, 03:43 PM
spellbee2
Cool, let's hope I can break my lucid dry spell soon so I can rock this competition.
3 Step:
1. Flying
2. Super Strength
3. Mass Telekinesis
Personal:
Clone yourself.
Incubation:
Theme: Legend of Zelda Hyrule Adventure.
01-23-2015, 04:27 PM
imazu
:pirate:
Yarrgh!! And such.. lol
Three-Step Task:
- Teleport
- Advanced Flying
- Mass Telekinesis
Personal Task: Eat some CAAKKKEEE!!!! :drool:
Personal Incubation (Place/Theme): Roaring 20's High Class Epic Party!!! :party:
01-23-2015, 04:36 PM
FryingMan
Quote:
Originally Posted by KonchogTashi
On the verge of a glorious competition performance, my recall has vanished!
Haha isn't that the truth! I had my probably worst dreaming night in months last night. I hope that means my SC is just cleaning out the system and getting ready for awesomely vivid, long, fascinating, sexy, and lucid dreams for the competition!
01-23-2015, 04:50 PM
MrPriority
1 Attachment(s)
Oh dear... intermediate?
But... I... whaa? Wait I can't... I don't.. I... I...
I guess I can only say:
Three step Task:
1. Basic Summoning
2. Use an electronic device
3. Mass Telekinesis
Personal task:
Go and watch a hanabi show (fireworks)
Incubation:
A Japanese festival, with people walking in yukata's
Let's shoot for the stars! I haven't done almost any of these things so far, so let's hope for the best! If it doesn't go well I'll just have to make up for it by posting 500 comments a day:chuckle: And if all fails I'll just gamble myself some points! :cheeky:
Fail-proof plan!
01-23-2015, 05:04 PM
StaySharp
Ya forgot to add me in on the middle league.
3 Step Tasks:
Flying
Invulnerability
Full Transformation
Quote:
Must be a task or incubation that you have not completed in a lucid dream before.
Hm... this makes things definitely more difficult to decide.
Personal Task:
This would've been the World Severing Seal (summoning a circle of pillars from the sky around you), but I managed to summon that a few times as well...
Fire breathing it is then, and not just a little, but rather fire breathing like a dragon.
Personal Incubation:
This would've been my dream alter-ego Ryuuko, but I already got her to appear in my dreams a few times.
Going with the story of the Dreamsphere Chronicles my goal will be to incubate Cardia then, the main city of the dream RPG.
01-23-2015, 05:19 PM
dolphin
:pirate: Yarggh! Let's do this pirates!
3 step tasks
-Teleport
-Fully Phase Through Big Solid Object
-Advanced Summoning
Personal Task
-Full transformation into dolphin
Personal Incubation
-tropical island
BTW, I'm going on vacation to Kauai Monday-Friday of next week! I'll be gone at that time. :D
01-23-2015, 05:25 PM
bemistaken
Oh GOD, I'm scared already! Let's go Stones! ;-)
Three Step Task:
1. Flying
2. Push hand through something solid
3. Super speed
Personal Goal:
Telekinesis and Summoning
Personal Incubation:
Not quite sure what this is...but I will come back to it.
P.S. Ok, after reading a little of what dream incubation is...does this mean that I will create a dream? If so, I will incubate that I will be at a Freddie Mercury Queen concert (the Freddie that had the clean cut hair cut and mustache and always wore the white tank top shirt...don't act like you don't know which Freddie I'm talking about :cheeky:) singing "Bohemian Rhapsody."
01-23-2015, 05:36 PM
Sensei
Ah! Sorry staysharp. I double checked through and added all the people to the list. Don't know how I missed ya.
Three step task
Teleport
Change gravity
Advanced object/dc changing
Personal task
Take off an arm and fight with only one arm (sorry canis, I'm gonna get there slowly)
Incubation task
RDC and significant other are now allowed in my dreams, I am gonna see what happens when I incubate them rather than try to stop them from coming into my dreams. Both must be present in dream.
Be mistaken. Incubation is like trying to dream of a specific person place thing or theme. My favorites right now are mine (person), dolphin (place, but a type of place), mrpiority (theme), and spellbee2 (theme).
Incubation threads are kinda rare, but a lot of people have some practice with this throughout the forum. If you need some help lemme know.
01-23-2015, 06:15 PM
Nfri
Sensei well done with rules, love it!
My three step task:
mass telekinesis
change gravity
teleport
lucid goal:
bring a song or music from lucid dream to waking
incubation:
Grandma's garden
Good luck guys! KEEP CALM AND LUCID DREAM,
AND MAINLY HAVE FUN!
:muffin:
01-23-2015, 06:48 PM
Nightfeather
3 step tasks:
Eat something
Flying
Change gravity
Personal task:
Walk through a mirror
Incubation:
Floating island(s)
Old but good. Back when youtube was still young and people had to host their own videos. Funny enough, looking at the wiki of it, it says "similar to 'ask zorbak' and 'Strong Bad Email'." Apparently something that I was born to like. lol.
01-23-2015, 08:05 PM
PercyLucid
Okay!!! Even though I speak fluently pirate (no kiding, my facebook is in English-Pirate!) I am a ninja... so I send this message to all the pirates, in plain pirete for you to get it " ye all troublin' me, so I will cast a kick ye butt and pillege ye bootie so me mateys will fancie it"
Three-Step Tasks
- Advance Flying (I bet Dreamer knew I would pick this one up :D)
- Element Manipulation
- Time Control (I figure rewining the dreaming, travel to past/future is also okay?)
Personal Goal:
- Visit a big city at night. Then fly into a cloud, find some lightning bolts and throw them down at the city to provoke a blackout. (It is a dare too, and also controls the elements... I love chaining!)
Personal Incubation:
- Magical Forest
01-23-2015, 08:37 PM
Ctharlhie
Three step tasks
Interact with a DC
Eat something
Teleport
Personal Incubation
The RR Diner from Twin Peaks
Personal Goal
Try the RR's famous cherry pie, talk to Dale Cooper
I recently got into Twin Peaks for the first time, it's great for getting into the dream feeling. Highly recommended.
01-23-2015, 10:26 PM
KestrelKat
Ooooo, I'm a Capulet!
Let's seeee...
I can't pick my tasks yet, so I will edit this post tonight or tomorrow with my choices!
(Are these choices things we can repeat every night for points or is it a one-time gig? And just so I'm clear, can you complete the tasks, get the points and then pick a new three-part task to try and get more points, and keep your old points?)
01-23-2015, 10:40 PM
JoannaB
I am still confused about the timing: the sign up thread said Friday 8pm start, this thead says Saturday 8pm start.
Also here it says the end is on Saturday at 8pm, but Sunday naps count???
01-24-2015, 12:19 AM
Sensei
Personal and incubation tasks you do and then when finished, you pick another and go again. 3 step tasks are a one time gig like always. The op said that about Sunday naps because I forgot to edit it out. :P in the other thread I also posted that the time had to change to Saturday because of the op being posted late. Everything on this thread is what you should listen to. The old thread is old and decrepit. :p
01-24-2015, 05:36 AM
Individual
Super excited for this competition! GO BEATLES :woohoo:
My 3 lucid tasks shall be:
- Interact with a dream character.
- Basic summoning. (I will attempt to pull something out of my pocket)
- Telekinesis.
Personal Goal: Dive off of a great height. :D
Good luck everyone and happy dreaming! :chuckle:
01-24-2015, 06:17 AM
StaySharp
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sensei
Ah! Sorry staysharp. I double checked through and added all the people to the list. Don't know how I missed ya.
Thanks, but... I'm still not seeing my name on the list :)
Since there are 5 Capulets and 6 Montagues I'll assume I get into the Capulets team then?
01-24-2015, 06:25 AM
OneUp
Sweet! Here are my 3 tasks and everything else:
3 Tasks:
-Advanced Summoning
-Teleportation
-Time Control
Personal Goal:
Find and Spend time with a specific Dream Character
Personal Incubation:
A nice beach at night with the sky covered in stars and a cool breeze.
I'm going to do awesome this time guys! I know it!
01-24-2015, 07:30 AM
fogelbise
I am psyched! :)
Three Step Task:
1. Time Control
2. Advanced Summon
3. Advanced DC/Object Change
Personal task:
Crash the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
Incubation:
Sexy Alien Humanoid Woman
01-24-2015, 07:36 AM
~Dreamer~
Quote:
Originally Posted by StaySharp
Thanks, but... I'm still not seing my name on the list :)
Since there are 5 Capulets and 6 Montagues I'll assume I get into the Capulets team then?
Added you to the Capulets team. :)
Good luck, everyone!
01-24-2015, 08:07 AM
AnotherDreamer
I have a question about the rules regarding combining three step task with personal goal and personal incubation. If I set my personal goal as visiting somewhere and part of a 3 step task was teleportation, would I be able to teleport to my personal goal location and get points for the 3 step task and the personal goal or do they have to be separate?
01-24-2015, 08:59 AM
PercyLucid
I just forget to say (and well, now too late as all of this started haha) You started this thread while Mercury on Retrograde lol!!!
01-24-2015, 09:20 AM
Sensei
Fogelbise
I love the distinction to pretend it is normal. :P I want to have crazy alien sex, but I won't do it with anything that isn't humanoid. Lol.
Quote:
Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer
I have a question about the rules regarding combining three step task with personal goal and personal incubation. If I set my personal goal as visiting somewhere and part of a 3 step task was teleportation, would I be able to teleport to my personal goal location and get points for the 3 step task and the personal goal or do they have to be separate?
Intermingle and mix as much as you want. :) creativity is the best form of dream control, no way I am gonna try and limit that.
01-24-2015, 09:28 AM
FryingMan
Comp-spiration!
All right gentle-dreamers, prepare to start your engines!
Stop, look around, ask yourself, "How odd is this?" Don't notice anything particularly odd? Well then ask yourself, "Why do I think I'm awake?" Prove it to yourself!
Realize, there are two (at least) major states of consciousness: awake, and dreaming. They are both "real!" Every single person experiences both states every single day! Resolve with "laser intent" to recognize the dream state. Catch it, recognize it, love it, wake up in your dreams!
No auto-pilot, zombie living! Embrace the now, the present. "*I* am *here*, *now*…in this dream!"
Kick start or re-start that critical reflective mindset with a lucid walk, or just a lucid moment, get up from your chair, look around, you could be dreaming right now!
Do something *different*, out of your routine, several times a day. Stand somewhere in your house your don't normally stand, look at something hanging in the hallway you haven't *really* seen in years!
Lucid in life, lucid in dreams!
Just woke from a dream? That dream is *points*, baby, *points* -- yeah the bed is warm and the room is cold, but gather the will to reach for that DJ/voice-recorder anyway, and at least get who/what/where recorded.
Journal every day, not just lucids!
01-24-2015, 09:49 AM
AnotherDreamer
Sweet! In that case, here are my things:
Three step task
1. Teleport
2. Advanced Summoning
3. Fully Phase through Big Solid Object
Lucid Task
Visit D.R. island
Incubation Task
Talk to the Chocolate Cake Man
01-24-2015, 09:53 AM
Sensei
Quote:
Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer
Sweet! In that case, here are my things:
Three step task
1. Teleport
2. Advanced Summoning
3. Fully Phase through Big Solid Object
Lucid Task
Visit D.R. island
Incubation Task
Talk to the Chocolate Cake Man
Oh man, I can't wait till you do your task and incubation. Gonna be some awesome dreams. :)
01-24-2015, 11:06 AM
FryingMan
Haha need to follow my own advice! I just watched a series of bicycle riders ride by outside *in the snow* including one of those antique, giant-front-wheeled-bicycles. My only thought? Hmm, wonder if it's hard to ride that thing in the snow… about 5 minutes later…"WAIT, WHAT?! RC RC RC RC !"
Three step task
Flying
Use an Electronic Device
Eat Something
Personal:
Summon my dream guide.
Incubation
Watch Jeff Buckley live!
Cmon Stones!!
01-24-2015, 07:22 PM
Nfri
Charging my ZEO, preparing doses in capsules, making my dark DJ darker, reading etwold, power of supplements and field guide to lucid dreaming, browsing my dj, reckoning dream sings, creating intentions, making plans in lucid, recalling my day, focusing on my actual state, stretching my imagination for milding, declutering my head stress free, setting alarm, slicing cheese with milk for wbtb, airing my bedroom, opening new earplugs and here we go! :P
01-24-2015, 08:12 PM
FryingMan
Quote:
Originally Posted by fogelbise
Personal task:
Crash the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
I'll see your personal task and raise you one: Crash the Victoria Secret Fashion Show *dressing room*
01-24-2015, 08:22 PM
PercyLucid
Time to rock!!!
Lucid engines 100%
Dream recall engine 100%
Motivational engine 100%
Kickbutt engine 100%
All systems 100%
Let's go Ninjas! Lets use our stealth and sneak out our non-lucid moments into lucid times!!
01-24-2015, 08:41 PM
Pickman
Well, it's 8pm in 30 minutes where I am, so I'd better pick my tasks for the night:
Dream control tasks:
Interact with a DC
Eat something
Full Transformation
Personal Task: Try swimming (never done it before in a dream)
Incubation Task: Walk on a beach (keeping it simple, never done dream incubation before)
01-24-2015, 10:03 PM
Sensei
Remember that your personal and incubation tasks can be picked again if you finish. A lot of you are picking kinda... difficult looking ones, I am hoping to try and get as many new ones done as possible. :)
It is already 8 for a few people in here. I am super excited about tonight. I don't get to sleep until like 11, but my recall and awareness are doing great. It is gonna be an awesome tourney.
It is still saturday 5.15AM here so I hope I am not too late. I want to join the intermediate league in the team of Capulets, because it sounds cooler and the Capulets come from a Cremonese family, which is where the best violins antique violins come from = D
My 3 step task is this:
1: Eat something (easy first task :P)
2: Gain invulnurability (I want to jump from a very high place and land face first into the ground)
3: Advanced summoning
With my current progress I'll bet on it every single night = D
01-25-2015, 06:07 AM
Antoia
Dream Control Tasks:
1. Basic Summoning
2. Telekinesis
3. Flying
Lucid task:
Have in-depth conversation with DC (which I haven't done yet because for some reason 95% of my LDs are devoid of people and the other 5% I don't remember to actually talk to them...). Preferably a fictional character, but anybody counts.
Incubation Task:
Visit Aziraphale's bookshop (from Good Omens), and hopefully talk to him and/or Crowley.
01-25-2015, 07:13 AM
spellbee2
Oh yeah, this starts tonight. I'm so excited, I've already got an Excel spreadsheet set up to help keep track of my points. :armflap:
If I was getting a full night of sleep, I would totally bet tonight to kick this thing off right. But alas, I have to be up early tomorrow morning. Maybe someday...
01-25-2015, 10:19 AM
PercyLucid
Well, well, well...
Some points are already scored for the Ninjas :D
Will update later... just a few points though, it wasn't a long lucid, but still!
01-25-2015, 10:48 AM
FryingMan
Ah well with Percy not yet reporting, these will be the FIRST REPORTED POINTS of the competition!
WOW WHAT A NIGHT. I'VE OUTDONE MYSELF. I RECALLED ONE WHOLE DREAM. Not two, three, four, or even ten, but ONE WHOLE DREAM! WOOHOO! AT THIS POINT I MAY BREAK 10 points by the END OF THE COMPETITION! I'M PSYCHED!
Apparently, Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca) not only is a great muscle relaxant, but a great *dream suppressor*. Sigh. :pissed: :bang:
01-25-2015, 11:52 AM
imazu
Quote:
Originally Posted by FryingMan
WOW WHAT A NIGHT. I'VE OUTDONE MYSELF. I RECALLED ONE WHOLE DREAM. Not two, three, four, or even ten, but ONE WHOLE DREAM! WOOHOO! AT THIS POINT I MAY BREAK 10 points by the END OF THE COMPETITION! I'M PSYCHED!
Haha, well you are not alone FryingMan, I've got the one dream blues as well...
***god you've answered like in 2 seconds while I was still editing SORRY! :roll: ***
Haha sorry, my bad :P
01-25-2015, 12:13 PM
FryingMan
Quote:
Originally Posted by blobularwindmil
Haha, well you are not alone FryingMan, I've got the one dream blues as well...
Yeah but you got in the will to WBTB and tripled the points! Next thing *I* knew after head-hits-pillow, it was morning alarm time, ugh. And you probably will get lucid after BTS.
01-25-2015, 12:19 PM
imazu
Well I just kinda woke up to pee.. lol. Natural WBTB since my husband usually gets up for work right around this time. I hope you're right about me getting lucid! And you'll make up for your down night I'm sure, I feel like the first night is gonna be the worst night for some people and the best night for others. It's all about how the urgent competitive feelings affect your mind.
01-25-2015, 12:21 PM
FryingMan
Haha yeah my comps usually start slow and build towards the 2nd week. I'll see what I can do about that!
01-25-2015, 12:36 PM
PercyLucid
Okay, so here it is all my work, and I believe the points are well added:
The following users have been dared by me: (I dared accordly to your level, don't worry!)
Individual bemistaken KonchogTashi
01-25-2015, 05:21 PM
spellbee2
Yep, I'm pretty much feeling those first night blues. Good thing I didn't bet last night.
1 fragment: 0.5 pts
WBTB: 2 pts
Total: 2.5 pts.
I had another whole dream, but after laying there for a while to remember it all, sometime during my attempt to reach for my phone to write it down, I FORGOT THE WHOLE THING. That B6 I took before bed obviously did a ton for my recall.
4 dreams-4 points
2 fragments-1 point
total-5 points
01-25-2015, 05:45 PM
Nfri
It turns out that I accidentally did June's task of the month because the bad linking, never mind! Really looking forward to my dream bottle of wine totm! :fuckyeah:
Previous Points: 4 Points from this Entry: 45
-recall dreams: 2
-first DILD: 10
-DEILD: 5
-RC: 1
-interact with DC: 2
-advanced flying: 10
-basic summoning: 4
-fully phase through big solid object: 8
-opening a portal(unspecified): 3
Total Points: 49
I guess I'm gonna change some of my stuff, since I can. Also, I realized my definition of "Teleport" is wrong.. lol. So, here are my new thingies:
Three-Step Task:
1. Advanced Flying
2. Mass Telekinesis
3. Time Control Personal Task: Let go of everything except my awareness and see where the dream takes me (much more meaningful than cake lol) Personal Incubation (Place): The 20's (felt like I needed to simplify..)
RC: 1 pt
Flying: 4 pts - very very briefly, maybe doesn't count?
Advanced Summoning: 15 pts (the TARDIS counts as a character right?)
Interact with a DC: 2 pts
Super Strength: 4 pts
Completed First Three-Part Task: 5 pts
WBTB (Failed): 2 pts
Total for Day 1: 46 pts
Progress on Personal Tasks
Three-Step Task: (X) Advanced Summoning ( ) Flying ( ) Advanced Flying
Lucid Task: ( ) Pet a Platypus
Incubation Task: ( in progress? ) TARDIS
DJ Comments So Far (not added to total yet): 2
Let me know if I did this completely wrong... hehe
01-25-2015, 07:49 PM
SammyTheSnake
So, here's my first night's report:
3 dreams (3pts)
1 fragment (1/2pt) -I'm counting "dream three" as a fragment because there really wasn't anything to report!
DILD 10pts
"Unspecified dream control" (breathing underwater) 3pts
I'm assuming that grumping at my alarm but not getting out of bed doesn't count as a WBTB, so no points for that one! :-P
Night Total: 16.5 points
Competition Total: 16.5 points
Also, here are my 3-step and personal tasks, which I didn't find time to decide on before the competition started!
1. Flying
2. Eat something
3. Advanced summoning
Lucid Task: Fly through a snowy alpine valley
Dream Incubation: A mountainside in china - preferably with a bamboo forest (like in house of flying daggers)
SammyTheSnake
01-25-2015, 08:00 PM
OneUp
Night 1
3 frags: 1.5 point
1 DILD: 10 points
1 RC: 1 point
Flying: 4 points
About what I was expecting for the first night. Dang. Upper leaguers kicking butt so far except me. :P I didn't get much sleep last night since someone quit and I had to work late. :) super excited about tonight though! Gonna be so fun!
@ginsan
Putting you in middle league. Dreamer set up the teams for me and she spent some time and effort evening everything out, so I left it up to her to put you somewhere. She told me that in order to keep teams balanced you will be on Montagues. :/ sorry about that, if ya join earlier next time you can give me some suggestions for teams and we can get you on a team more suited to ya ;)
Good luck in the competition.
01-25-2015, 08:31 PM
KestrelKat
When it says the three part tasks can be completed in different dreams, do they still have to be in the same night? If so, I need to deduct points from my total lol
I feel like a real newb asking all these questions, sorry guys!
01-25-2015, 08:39 PM
sprada
Decided to try WILD during a nap since it's the first day and I gathered only 2 points for my team during the night. I Was a bit sleep deprived. It's not easy to stay home and dream Saturday night. Fell asleep really fast listening to some binaural beats.
Of course failed my WILD attempt but got a nice DILD from it :)
So:
1 Full Dream: 1 point
First DILD of the Night: 10 points
Reality Check / Stabilization: 1 point
Interact with a Dream Character: 2 points
Eat Something: 4 points
Use an Electronic Device: 4 points
Point from previous failed WBTB: 2 points
Competition total: 24 points
Tried to summon my dream guide for my personal task but the guy didn't bother to show up.
I really want to go to a Jeff Buckley concert and summon my dream guide but these are pretty hardcore tasks for a noob like me.
I going to change my personal tasks in the meanwhile.
Go stones gooooo
01-25-2015, 09:44 PM
fogelbise
Night 1: wbtb done too early; maybe I will set an alarm next time *if* the water method wakes me too early. Later morning waking came with unexplained exhaustion. Sleep in.
2 dreams, 2 fragments, +wbtb: 5pts
I had LD's the two previous nights but none recalled tonight...next time! (So my new LD DJ entry I'm doing next is a day late...unfortunately not during competition).
01-25-2015, 09:55 PM
JoannaB
I napped and remembered a fragment. New total: 0.5 pts
"I get by with a little help from my friends." Go Beatles
01-26-2015, 12:25 AM
MrPriority
Rough start here. 2 full dreams. New total: 2 Points
Hopefully going to get this dare done for some serious points. :D
01-26-2015, 03:19 AM
~Dreamer~
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nfri
It turns out that I accidentally did June's task of the month because the bad linking, never mind! Really looking forward to my dream bottle of wine totm! :fuckyeah:
total = 72 - 10 = 62 points
You can totally keep those points Nfri, it was my mistake for not updating the TotM link!
I've fixed it now so it links to the current month's tasks. :)
01-26-2015, 04:10 AM
KestrelKat
Changing my second three-part task to Object/DC Changing, so my new three-part is
(I get to keep the first part checked since I already did it and am not changing it, right?)
01-26-2015, 06:22 AM
StaySharp
6 remembered dreams and with that 6 points.
In of those non-lucid dreams I WILDed only to pinch my nos and find I can't breathe stupidly thinking it was not a lucid dream despite many other factors obviously telling me so. Still though, right the second time I slept after the competition started I somehow thought about becoming lucid in a dream, which is a start.
01-26-2015, 06:32 AM
spellbee2
Had a nice semi-productive nap today, got a couple more points.
In terms of goals (ToTY, Dares, Personal) last night I completed very little (failed twice pandora box) but I believe I scored a big chunk of points (various fragments, two lucids WILD/DILD, a full dream and lots of little stuff done.) I have quite some work as usual, but I will update later :)
Note: Guys, when adding points even for non lucid dreams, please post the links here, so they can be accounted :)
01-26-2015, 09:22 AM
FryingMan
competition night #2, new total: 14
My understanding of DV Extra Tasks (TOTY, Dare, TOTM) is that the "Extra" points counts once *per competition* so the competition maximum for these is 10+20+30
> The status for each task will either be "complete" or "incomplete", so there is no reason to complete any twice.
Yay, had a proper "FryingMan night" with great recall
Missed a LD: I knew I was in a non-waking reality environment, but I rationalized it as being inside some sort of awesome video game :bang: :bang: :pissed: :pissed: hahaha! :cackle:
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips (a lot of these also apply to getting lucid!)
Quote:
Originally Posted by sprada
How do you guys do that?
Recall 10 non lucids?
Thats the key right there.
Dream recall is very important, it is one of the "keys to the (LD) kingdom." Self-awareness and access to memory, confidence, strong intention and expectation, imagination/creativity, and the ability to relax and fall asleep after WBTB are the other key abilities to hone. I've got dream recall to a decent place, but I need still to find the winning combination on all the other parts.
+ dream recall must be *very important* to you, it must be at the level of "need" rather than just a strong desire
+ realize that you DO dream, for hours potentially, every single night -- you just need to remember it!
+ the more you notice night-time wakings, the more opportunities you have to reach for recall
+ set strong intention at bedtime: repeat to yourself for a minute or two (or as long as you like) "I remember my dreams", really believe it and feel how very important this is to you
+ for the "dream recall full-court press," also set this intention: "I notice every waking, remain still, and recall my dreams"
+ standard things like: remain still. I'm at a point where this is not critical, I can keep dreams on my mind while sitting up or turning over in bed, but for most this still remains important especially when you're working on building up recall in the beginning
+ ask yourself "What was I just dreaming about?"
+ do not take vacations from dream recall: no breaks, not even when tired/sick. When I just can't get myself to record, I still run through the dreams mentally and try to maintain a memory list of accumulated dreams all during the night for recording in the morning.
+ so therefore, reach for dream recall every single time you find yourself awake
+ run through the dreams mentally and assign each one a key word/phrase. Go over these words/phrases several times before moving to reach for your DJ/voice recorder.
+ I use a voice recorder: recite quickly all the individual words/phrases from the dream list, and only later go into detail. Nothing is more frustrating than jumping into detail to find the rest of the dreams in the list have slipped away (I'm guilty of this, done it many times!). The benefit of a voice recorder is: 1) you can record in the dark with minimal movement; 2) you can speak much faster and more clearly than chicken scribbles in the middle of the night; 3) no fumbling for a light, a pen, and the notebook, just your smartphone.
+ Lie quietly waiting for the memories to come to you. When you get an impression, then hold on to it and associate like crazy.
An example from this last night. I had forgotten the kayaking school. I was lying quietly recalling, and at some point I got the strong impression of "rain". So I held on to "rain" tightly with my mind and just tried to associate, and all of a sudden I realized the "it was raining so they went inside" and I then remembered the rest of the kayaking dream.
This was a good night, but still not my best: I've had 16-17+ dreams in a night: 4 wakings, 4 dreams each waking.
+ be thankful for your dreaming experiences (Gab)
+ practice recalling your waking day before bedtime
+ practice storing interesting/important/notable waking situations in your memory in order to remember them at night.
+ pay attention and be present in your waking life, notice things! If you can't remember your waking day, how can you possibly remember dreams?
It is my opinion that one can never have enough recall! We dream *so much* every night. I know that I must have forgotten even more dreams and even more detail from each dream last night, and I deeply desire to remember everything!
edit: Effort leads to increasing success, consistent success leads to confidence, which sets up a positive cycle of great results -> more confidence -> more great results and so on.
I just need to get this loop going with lucidity itself now!
Total nights: 2 nights
Total points today: 45 pts
Grand total points: 126 pts
01-26-2015, 12:33 PM
JoannaB
4 fragments (2pts) and failed WBTB (2pts) = 4pts for the night
TOTAL: 4.5 points
While I was in an underwater prison and my husband objected to lobsters as decorations
So the Beatles quote is "I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus's garden in the shade." Go Beatles
01-26-2015, 01:40 PM
dolphin
3 dreams=3 points
competition total=8 points
This was on short sleep as I had to wake up early to fly away to Kauai! Speaking of which, I'll be back Saturday so I'll pick a couple more incubation and personal tasks in case I complete my current tasks while on vacation.
Incubation tasks:under the ocean, at the beach
Personal tasks:Hear a conversation between my past and future self, go surfing
01-26-2015, 01:43 PM
sprada
Quote:
Originally Posted by FryingMan
Dream recall is very important, it is one of the "keys to the (LD) kingdom." Self-awareness and access to memory, confidence, strong intention and expectation, imagination/creativity, and the ability to relax and fall asleep after WBTB are the other key abilities to hone. I've got dream recall to a decent place, but I need still to find the winning combination on all the other parts.
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips (a lot of these also apply to getting lucid):
+ dream recall must be *very important* to you, it must be at the level of "need" rather than just a strong desire
+ realize that you DO dream, for hours potentially, every single night -- you just need to remember it!
+ the more you notice night-time wakings, the more opportunities you have to reach for recall
+ set strong intention at bedtime: repeat to yourself for a minute or two (or as long as you like) "I remember my dreams", really believe it and feel how very important this is to you
+ for the "dream recall full-court press," also set this intention: "I notice every waking, remain still, and recall my dreams"
+ standard things like: remain still. I'm at a point where this is not critical, I can keep dreams on my mind while sitting up or turning over in bed, but for most this still remains important especially when you're working on building up recall in the beginning
+ ask yourself "What was I just dreaming about?"
+ do not take vacations from dream recall: no breaks, not even when tired/sick. When I just can't get myself to record, I still run through the dreams mentally and try to maintain a memory list of accumulated dreams all during the night for recording in the morning.
+ so therefore, reach for dream recall every single time you find yourself awake
+ run through the dreams mentally and assign each one a key word/phrase. Go over these words/phrases several times before moving to reach for your DJ/voice recorder.
+ I use a voice recorder: recite quickly all the individual words/phrases from the dream list, and only later go into detail. Nothing is more frustrating than jumping into detail to find the rest of the dreams in the list have slipped away (I'm guilty of this, done it many times!). The benefit of a voice recorder is: 1) you can record in the dark with minimal movement; 2) you can speak much faster and more clearly than chicken scribbles in the middle of the night; 3) no fumbling for a light, a pen, and the notebook, just your smartphone.
+ Lie quietly waiting for the memories to come to you. When you get an impression, then hold on to it and associate like crazy.
An example from this last night. I had forgotten the kayaking school. I was lying quietly recalling, and at some point I got the strong impression of "rain". So I held on to "rain" tightly with my mind and just tried to associate, and all of a sudden I realized the "it was raining so they went inside" and I then remembered the rest of the kayaking dream.
This was a good night, but still not my best: I've had 16-17+ dreams in a night: 4 wakings, 4 dreams each waking.
+ be thankful for your dreaming experiences (Gab)
+ practice recalling your waking day before bedtime
+ practice storing interesting/important/notable waking situations in your memory in order to remember them at night.
+ pay attention and be present in your waking life, notice things! If you can't remember your waking day, how can you possibly remember dreams?
It is my opinion that one can never have enough recall! We dream *so much* every night. I know that I must have forgotten every more dreams and even more detail from each dream, and I deeply desire to remember everything!
Awesome advice here.
Thanks for putting it together.
One adicional question if I may.
Do you maintain a written Dream Journal? I find it really hard to do it.
I use a recording app and maintain an audio dream journal. I struggle a lot to keep my written DJ (desktop app not a physical one) updated.
Do you feel that I'm losing a lot this way?
sorry for the hijack
01-26-2015, 01:45 PM
AnotherDreamer
1 dream, 6 fragments, wbtb - 6
DILD - 10
WILD - 10
Interact with a DC - 2
Betting - 5
I bet 5 points that I will have another LD tonight! :)
01-26-2015, 02:24 PM
Ctharlhie
Quote:
Originally Posted by sprada
Awesome advice here.
Thanks for putting it together.
One adicional question if I may.
Do you maintain a written Dream Journal? I find it really hard to do it.
I use a recording app and maintain an audio dream journal. I struggle a lot to keep my written DJ (desktop app not a physical one) updated.
Do you feel that I'm losing a lot this way?
I need to add incubation task. I was messing around with incubating a dream at my childhood home last night and got a full dream set there and a fragment as well.
NEW INCUBATION TARGET: "The Farm", my childhood home
01-26-2015, 02:55 PM
Sensei
Quote:
Originally Posted by PercyLucid
In terms of goals (ToTY, Dares, Personal) last night I completed very little (failed twice pandora box) but I believe I scored a big chunk of points (various fragments, two lucids WILD/DILD, a full dream and lots of little stuff done.) I have quite some work as usual, but I will update later :)
Note: Guys, when adding points even for non lucid dreams, please post the links here, so they can be accounted :)
Percy! Non lucids do not have to be dream journaled (Unless incubation target). Also, toty, TOTM and lucid dares can only be counted once per competition. Personal Tasks and incubation task can be done each night.
Quote:
Originally Posted by dolphin
3 dreams=3 points
competition total=8 points
This was on short sleep as I had to wake up early to fly away to Kauai! Speaking of which, I'll be back Saturday so I'll pick a couple more incubation and personal tasks in case I complete my current tasks while on vacation.
Incubation tasks:under the ocean, at the beach
Personal tasks:Hear a conversation between my past and future self, go surfing
Have fun dolphin! It should be fine that you are picking your personal tasks like this in your absence, just don't forget to do them in order. :)
01-26-2015, 03:22 PM
AnotherDreamer
I also think you're supposed to only get 1 point for either RC or stabilization, but not both. Am I right about that sensei? :)
01-26-2015, 03:25 PM
FryingMan
Quote:
Originally Posted by sprada
Awesome advice here.
Thanks for putting it together.
One adicional question if I may.
Do you maintain a written Dream Journal? I find it really hard to do it.
I use a recording app and maintain an audio dream journal. I struggle a lot to keep my written DJ (desktop app not a physical one) updated.
Do you feel that I'm losing a lot this way?
sorry for the hijack
You're welcome!
This is core dreaming advice which I know is welcome in competition threads usually, so don't worry about the mini-hijack.
Yes, I maintain an on-line DJ, so I transcribe my voice notes (most of the time I do not need to refer to the notes but they're there as a backup or if a few days go by) on to the computer.
A DJ is another case of practicing access to memory, reliving the experience. It shows your subconscious that yes, dream memories are *important* to you.
I have developed a daily ritual for this: soon after getting out of bed, I write up one-sentence summaries of all my dreams on the "Share your dream(s) from last night in one sentence" thread. I try to do this entirely from memory. In cases where I dreamed a lot with many independent scenes I might consult the voice notes. The summary is like a 2nd keywords summary of the dream, a bit longer, which helps to remember the dream. I'll then hit "copy to DJ" on this message and fill in the details under the summaries of the dreams. Sometimes I'll wait a few days to fill in the details, but now I'm trying to do it right away while the memories are freshest.
Yes, I think if you're skipping this step you're missing something in the development of your dream recall. With a DJ you will also be able to relive your dream experiences for years to come. Reading through your DJ once a year or so will maintain these memories as "yours" instead of just being like reading someone else's dream journal.
01-26-2015, 03:59 PM
StaySharp
Quote:
Originally Posted by sprada
How do you guys do that?
Recall 10 non lucids?
Thats the key right there.
There was already a lot of good advice in reply to your question, you might be able to find some more things in my Dream Recall Compendium, the link is in my signature. Talking of which, now that I have more time I guess I should get around to reread it myself, and maybe update it. Once, a long time ago I was at a master state of dream recall in terms of quantity, and remembering every single dream each night was a common thing to happen, the good old times... But I'll get back there in no time.
Also 6 fragments for now since I got lazy with my attempts at getting back to polyphasic. It'll work eventually.
Total: 9 Points
01-26-2015, 04:05 PM
Ctharlhie
Quote:
Originally Posted by StaySharp
There was already a lot of good advice in reply to your question, you might be able to find some more things in my Dream Recall Compendium, the link is in my signature. Talking of which, now that I have more time I guess I should get around to reread it myself, and maybe update it. Once, a long time ago I was at a master state of dream recall in terms of quantity, and remembering every single dream each night was a common thing to happen, the good old times... But I'll get back there in no time.
Also 6 fragments for now since I got lazy with my attempts at getting back to polyphasic. It'll work eventually.
Just a quick response to that article: as others have noted, dreams recorded only with "who/what/where" most likely will become incomprehensible several years down the road. Also, it's not just the writing, sure, but when you write an entry you're reliving the details over and over and over with every sentence and review of what you're written so far.
Sensei: do incubation points counts even on non-lucids? I got close! Food court -> fast food restaurant dream.
Quote:
Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer
I also think you're supposed to only get 1 point for either RC or stabilization, but not both. Am I right about that sensei? :)
Hmm, the way the scoring is written, it's not clear:
Quote:
• Reality Check / Stabilization - 1 point
edit: merge posts
01-26-2015, 04:21 PM
Ctharlhie
Quote:
Originally Posted by FryingMan
Just a quite response to that article: as others have noted, dreams recorded only with "who/what/where" most likely will become incomprehensible several years down the road. Also, it's not just the writing, sure, but when you write an entry you're reliving the details over and over and over with every sentence and review of what you're written so far.
Sensei: do incubation points counts even on non-lucids? I got close! Food court -> fast food restaurant dream.
Full prose journalling is required for archiving, but I think the gist of his method is to build dream memory through rapid fire journalling and re-remembering your dreams throughout the day.
01-26-2015, 04:51 PM
Sensei
Fryingman
Incubation is a lucid or non lucid thing. I forgot to mention that in the OP. In fact when lucid it is barely an incubation and more of a goal (most of the time)
Quote:
Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer
I also think you're supposed to only get 1 point for either RC or stabilization, but not both. Am I right about that sensei? :)
Since each dream control can only be counted once per dream and RC/stabilization are put together, then you can only count one of those per dream.
Night for me:
4 dreams = 4 points
WBTB = 2 points
WILD = 10 points
Teleport = 7 points
RC/stabilize = 1 point
Advanced summoning (make someone appear in direct view) = 10 points
Interact with DC = 2 points
Eat something = 4 points
First of 3 step task (teleport) = 5 points
incubation task (RDC and significant other) = 15 points
Spoiler for Dream:
Characters:
RDC's significant other = A
RDC = RDC
Baby wakes me up. I try to do some quick recall, but am getting nothing, I turn over to get him and my wife comes in the room and helps him. I think about my incubation and roll back over and immediately WILD into a dream. I am in a colorless void and have no body. This won't do at all. I teleport away and now I am in a black void with a body... nope. Teleport again. I am at A's work. Yay! easy. I walk over to the counter and see A. Things start to destabilize when I get close and I cannot see faces. I stabilize and it becomes clear. I ask for some food and I get "no" for an answer. I look over the counter and imagine RDC, RDC pops up out of thin air and hands me a coffee. I thank RDC for it and I talk with both while I drink coffee
Total for night = 60 points
Total for competition = 66 points
EDIT:
I just saw that one of the dares that I had forgotten about was to drink a large espresso and describe taste and effect. Had I looked at those yesterday I could have done that! I just got a caramel machiatto in my dream. :/
Looking down the Dares though, I would recommend everyone check the everyone dares. Some of them are actually straight up dream control tasks.
01-26-2015, 04:58 PM
PercyLucid
Good to know! Since RC is different than stabilization I could 1 point for each, but I updated all now.
I subtracted a total of 3 points (1 from yesterday and 2 from last night)
New incubation:
Fabian.
01-26-2015, 05:47 PM
Nightfeather
I did a WBTB and woke up after every sleep cycle later in the night, as my wake up times indicate. I even had a pseudo-lucid fragment - there is a lucid on its way!
WBTB - 2 pts
3 dreams - 3 pts
10 fragments - 5 pts Total Night 2: 10 pts
Previous total: 1 pt Running total: 11 pts
01-26-2015, 06:11 PM
spellbee2
Dang, I hate being sick, it's throwing all of my dreaming off. At least I still got a couple...
Well easy to score and no need to journal online but I feel the LD's are right around the corner with good general dream awareness last night. FryingMan man was in a dream and I even walked over to him and said this is one of those "must RC" moments with all of this crowd bursting into song much like a flash mob but my mind came up with a different explanation. I only did one RC and it showed I was awake! Doh! I think this is one of the few - maybe only times - I have done an RC in a dream without already thinking or knowing that I am dreaming! I was assuming I was awake and only thinking it was just a good moment to practice an RC!
One non-lucid (maybe semi-lucid) was so vivid, beautiful and adventurous that I wouldn't trade it for just an average LD...but oh would it have been awesome to be lucid in that one!
Night 2:
3 dreams, 2 fragments, wbtb, 5 DJ comments: 7pts + 5 previously=12pts competition total.
I again woke too early for wbtb (3 hours) so I followed through with my plan to set an alarm for 1.5 hours more.
I can feel it in the air tonight!
01-26-2015, 06:44 PM
Sensei
Soooo... got a 15 minute nap in and got another lucid. :P The betting doesn't count for this since this is still yesterday night.
DILD = 10 points
DEILD = 2 points
RC = 1 point
Telekinesis = 4 points
Interact with DC = 2 points
Anyone dares:
Quote:
Use telekinesis. (PercyLucid)
First of these is 10 points = 10 points
total for nap = 29
Total for competition = 66 + 29 = 95 points
Spoiler for Nap:
I am laying down and I keep feeling my legs moving. I really want to fix them, but in the past this has woken me. It is just the first of my dream feelings. I use dream thoughts to try and get them down (it feels like my legs are up in my face) and then I don't remember what happened next. I am at my work getting into my car and leaving for home. One of the guys is talking about his girlfriend and then I stop (now that I think about it, I was going through a doorway which is a time to check my pockets and RC in waking, usually in dreams the more of these I walk through the more aware I get each time until I finally think about dreamin). I look at my hands to make sure and rub them together. I go inside my work and see 5 fruits (orange, apples, grapefruits) and think that juggling is a task for some reason, I toss the balls in the air and start trying to juggle (I can juggle 3 in waking, but I was planning on cheating and using some TK etc to make 5 work. I throw one too high and as I look up to catch it, I slip and fall on my back.
I wake up and DEILD back
I look for the fruits again, but now there are exercise balls and bowling balls instead. I try to pick them all up with TK but fail (yeah... not too happy about that, but no big deal really). I remember that there was an "anyone dare" for telekinesis, I feel bad doing it the easy way, but the person I need to catch in the competition is the one that posted that dare anyways :P. I kick the exercise ball against the wall and hold it there with telekinesis. I pull it towards my outstretched hand and then throw it around the whole of my work flying and knocking things over. It almost hits my wife and I stop it. She walks over to me and I... interact with dream character.
I wake up when my alarm goes off.
01-26-2015, 06:47 PM
bemistaken
A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING. Date: 1/26/2015
Method: MILD, Mantra
Total Sleep time: 8 hours
WBTB Time: 15-20 minutes
I remember three fragments:
1. I was writing a letter to GOD and asking him when I will see him and/or what will it take to see him
2. I was riding in the car with with Beyonce and Solange (this should have been a dream sign for me...never ever will happen in my lifetime)
3. False awakening: I was writing in my dream journal about riding in the car with Beyonce and Solange...sigh
4.I was making coffee in my walk in closet and someone was trying to turn on the stereo (also in my closet) and we couldn't figure out how to turn it on.
DAY TWO
WBTB: 2 points
Fragments (4): 2 points
Total: 4 points
Total points for both days is 6 ½ points.
I have no idea if I am adding all of this up right, please someone double check my points...I need all the points I can get right now :disconcerted:
01-26-2015, 07:30 PM
PercyLucid
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sensei
I remember that there was an "anyone dare" for telekinesis, I feel bad doing it the easy way, but the person I need to catch in the competition is the one that posted that dare anyways :P.
Is that so??? :D :cackle: :rolllaugh: We are in the same team!!! Okay, okay then :)
Well, I will switch a part of my daily meditations into WILDs and nap instead!!! :chuckle: :chuckle:
And since you like to play hard:
I bet 5 points I will lucid dream tonight
01-26-2015, 07:33 PM
imazu
My goodness! Some of you are on FIRE!!!
I recalled 3 nonlucid dreams and did 2 WBTB (only going to count 1 of course)
Is that so??? :D :cackle: :rolllaugh: We are in the same team!!! Okay, okay then :)
Well, I will switch a part of my daily meditations into WILDs and nap instead!!! :chuckle: :chuckle:
haha. :P I want to win as a team and the individual! I prolly should have said "one of the people I want to catch" because I gotta contend with all you higher league people.
I like competition. No matter what happens here I need to beat anotherdreamer. He has beaten me too many times.
All LDs count! You might notice that taking time away from meditation makes you lose night lucidity though. :) I always want to nap and I am like "I need more awareness for my LDs!"
01-26-2015, 07:50 PM
PercyLucid
Indeed, I love it too :) You boosted my motivation even more :D During some of my meditations I Astral Project, which is basically a WILD and then, instead of following the "lucid path" I raise the vibrations, etc to pull myself out. Well, I will then set the intents to LD and not AP :P
01-26-2015, 07:54 PM
Sensei
Quote:
Originally Posted by PercyLucid
Indeed, I love it too :) You boosted my motivation even more :D During some of my meditations I Astral Project, which is basically a WILD and then, instead of following the "lucid path" I raise the vibrations, etc to pull myself out. Well, I will then set the intents to LD and not AP :P
I don't wanna contend with anyone not going all out like I am! Victory means nothing without everyone trying. :) Let's do this. I don't want to see any dry spells in higher league. I want us all to do our best! So then when I win... haha. :P
01-26-2015, 07:58 PM
PercyLucid
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sensei
I don't wanna contend with anyone not going all out like I am! Victory means nothing without everyone trying. :) Let's do this. I don't want to see any dry spells in higher league. I want us all to do our best! So then when I win... haha. :P
We think very much alike. Can't agree more!!! Ditto, ditto, ditto :mwahaha:
01-27-2015, 01:11 AM
Pickman
Night 2:
I remembered 1 fragment = 0.5 points.
It can only get better from here.
01-27-2015, 02:15 AM
Antoia
Will be posting late for the first few days because I have several comp sci projects due the next day and I'm probably going to stay up really late debugging things...
Anyway. Points:
Night 1
Stayed up late. Woke up late. Remembered dream but it flew away .-. Induction and Recall
1 fragment - 0.5 pt
Total: 0.5 pt
What a great start to the competition! /s
Night 2
Slept late. Woke up early because of alarm. Alarm kept ringing (didn't turn it off even though I had no school today) and I kept pressing my volume keys on my phone which snoozed it, instead of actually sliding the bar to stop it so it kept ringing every 10 mins. Was really annoying, but then I had an unexpected LD. Maybe I should keep doing this, heh. Induction and Recall
1 fragment - 0.5 pt
1 dream - 1 pt (okay so actually I remember 90% of the dream, does that round up or down? Because I count fragments as like sentence-long sort of entries, while for this one I have several paragraphs. I know I'm missing a few parts of the dream though...)
First DILD - 10 pts (I think it was a DILD. Not sure.)
Dream Control
RC/Stabilize - 1 pt
Interact with a DC - 2 pts
Super Strength - 4 pts (I assume pulling open a brick wall with my bare hands counts, heh)
Night 2 Total: 16.5 pts
Competition Total: 17 pts
Now that's better :)
Night #2
So last night my sleep was cut down about 4 hours, so I didn't get that good of a sleep. School sucks bruh.
Anyways:
1 full NLD: 1 point
1 frag: .5 points
Total for the night: 1.5 points
Total for the competition: 18 points http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/oneup/cops-63807/
01-27-2015, 03:46 AM
Sensei
Quote:
Originally Posted by OneUp
Night #2
So last night my sleep was cut down about 4 hours, so I didn't get that good of a sleep. School sucks bruh.
Anyways:
1 full NLD: 1 point
1 frag: .5 points
Total for the night: 1.5 points
Total for the competition: 18 points http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/oneup/cops-63807/
You gonna bet on tonight? You gotta believe man! :) I believe in ya if that helps.
01-27-2015, 04:11 AM
KestrelKat
Ugh, horrible night last night and no time to nap today... D: Probably also won't get to sleep at a reasonable time because homework sucks lol
I know I don't have to journal non-lucids but I will anyways:
Day 2: ~Teh Journal~
Points:
3 Full Dreams: 3 pts
Mega-Fail WBTB: 2 pts
Total for Day 2: a whopping 5 pts
(Adding 10 pts for semi-incubation task completed last night)
Competition Subtotal: 61 pts
Progress on Personal Tasks
Three-Step Task: (X) Advanced Summoning ( ) Object/DC Changing ( ) Advanced Flying
Lucid Task: ( ) Pet a Platypus
Incubation Task: (X) TARDIS ( ) Family Cabin "Up North"
DJ Comments So Far (not added to total yet): 3
Sensei, I am slightly confused about the incubation task thingy. Since I made a TARDIS on Day 1, but it wasn't completely accurate, would it count for the incubation task? I read that it could be lucid OR non-lucid but was better as a non-lucid thing, right? In that case, I might change my incubation task for tonight to be something easier to dream of while not lucid.
New matress arrived today after being delayed. No more couch for me :chuckle:
I'm really confident I'm going to have a lucid tonight but I don't have the 5 points to bet.
01-27-2015, 04:53 AM
Sensei
Quote:
Originally Posted by KestrelKat
Ugh, horrible night last night and no time to nap today... D: Probably also won't get to sleep at a reasonable time because homework sucks lol
I know I don't have to journal non-lucids but I will anyways:
Day 2: ~Teh Journal~
Points:
3 Full Dreams: 3 pts
Mega-Fail WBTB: 2 pts
Total for Day 2: a whopping 5 pts
Competition Subtotal: 51 pts
Progress on Personal Tasks
Three-Step Task: (X) Advanced Summoning ( ) Object/DC Changing ( ) Advanced Flying
Lucid Task: ( ) Pet a Platypus
Incubation Task: ( in progress? ) TARDIS
DJ Comments So Far (not added to total yet): 2
Sensei, I am slightly confused about the incubation task thingy. Since I made a TARDIS on Day 1, but it wasn't completely accurate, would it count for the incubation task? I read that it could be lucid OR non-lucid but was better as a non-lucid thing, right? In that case, I might change my incubation task for tonight to be something easier to dream of while not lucid.
It is up to you! I read the dream and you said that it didn't seem like the TARDIS. I also forgot to say yesterday that summoning the TARDIS the way you did would be advanced DC summoning like you said. I would probably count that as your incubation, but as I said, it is up to you. You can choose another one if you want a different one or if you agree that you finished it then you choose another one as well.
01-27-2015, 04:57 AM
KestrelKat
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sensei
It is up to you! I read the dream and you said that it didn't seem like the TARDIS. I also forgot to say yesterday that summoning the TARDIS the way you did would be advanced DC summoning like you said. I would probably count that as your incubation, but as I said, it is up to you. You can choose another one if you want a different one or if you agree that you finished it then you choose another one as well.
Hmmmm I think I will count it but only for 10 of the 15 points since it wasn't perfect. (And mostly to make up for how unproductive last night and likely tonight will be ; u ; Also if you said you would count it, I won't feel like I'm cheating)
New Incubation task will be the cabin my family goes to every mother's day!
01-27-2015, 05:20 AM
Nfri
betting on tonight
01-27-2015, 06:22 AM
AnotherDreamer
Spoiler for Points & Math (:
2 dreams, wbtb - 4
DILD - 10
WILD - 10
-->24
WILD:
Interact with a DC - 2
Eat Something - 4
Telekinesis - 4
Electronic Device - 4
Teleport - 7
Elemental Manipulation - 8
RC/Stabilize - 1
-->30
DILD:
Interact with a DC - 2
Elemental Manipulation - 8
Advanced Summoning - 10
-->20
While one fragment is better than nothing, that's all I can say that is positive about that. (0.5pts)
Total: 5.0
"Baby you can drive my car. Yes, I'm gonna be a star." Go Beatles.
01-27-2015, 04:08 PM
Ctharlhie
3 Dreams + WBTB = 5
But disregard that because I'm betting on lucidity tonight! :D
01-27-2015, 04:58 PM
Nightfeather
Night 3: 7 fragments - 3.5 pts
Total: 11+3.5=14.5
01-27-2015, 06:05 PM
PercyLucid
Well, definitely not my best night. It started out pretty well, with a couple fragments within just an hour, to be followed by nothing at all until around 7pm (A WBTB done at 4am with no success at all) I was thinking that this night was going to deduct me points instead of earning (I did bet last night 5 pts for a lucid) But a WILD saved the day (well, better said, the night) Not an awesome read, not a long and pro dream, but gives points :D
http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/perc...y-lucid-63830/
Full Dream Recall (1 pts)
WILD (10 pts)
Stabilize (1 pts)
Basic Telekinesis (4 pts)
Basic flying (4 pts)
Basic summoning (he did not appear in front of me) + Fictional Character (9 pts)
DC Interaction (2 pts)
Eat something (4 pts)
Lucid Bet (5 pts )
And that is all for this one.
DJ Comments (# comments - I will convert to points and add them at the end of competition): 14 comments
Total nights: 3 nights
Total points today: 41pts
Grand total points: 167 pts
Now, it is time for me to meditate and then I will try to WILD :)
I wonder if this WILD counts as a new one, since it is during the day, or it counts as a second WILD, since I did one last night.
01-27-2015, 06:16 PM
imazu
Quote:
Originally Posted by PercyLucid
Now, it is time for me to meditate and then I will try to WILD :)
I wonder if this WILD counts as a new one, since it is during the day, or it counts as a second WILD, since I did one last night.
I was thinking about this, too. I think it should be one WILD per 24hrs.
My night was terrible.. Already added previous sleep session and my WBTB. I couldn't get back to sleep after my WBTB for a long time and my second sleep session only yielded a single fragment... Ugh. And I lost my bet! Unless I can take a nap today and get it then.. I guess I won't subtract the points until later.
Fragment - .5
New Total:57.5
01-27-2015, 07:06 PM
Sensei
Percy, I told you in chat, but I should post it here as well. The first for night resets at 8 PM. Should have made a rule about that sooner. :P
I had a killer night. :P
6 dreams = 6 points
WBTB = 2 points
DILD = 10 points
RC/Stabilize = 1 point
Interact with DC = 2 points
Change gravity = 6 points
Flying = 4 points
Partial transformation (losing arm) = 4 points
Use an electronic device = 4 points
Fully phase through a solid object = 8 points
Advanced Object DC changing = 10 points
Three step task #2 (Change gravity) = 10 points
Three step task #3 (Advanced DC/object change) = 15 points
Personal task = 15 points
Bet = 5 points
Total for night = 102 points
Total for competition = 95 +102 = 197 points
Almost got my incubation task too! I am trying to see my nephew (My nephew was born yesterday!) I saw my sister (the one that just had the baby) holding my son. AH! Pretty close.
Spoiler for lucid dreams:
I am in my city... I see something strange... Lines and lines of black people going into the city. I RC. I walk up to one about my age.
"What is going on?" I ask.
"Black Appreciation day." He says "The government is throwing all of us a big party, we all have to be there."
That isn't good. There is no such thing, and the government making someone do anything is bad.
"Don't try to explain, he won't understand. Most of the people in Zφdra won't understand." I look to see that Jason is talking. My dad is standing next to him as well as my sister (gonna call her J for this, not the sister that just had a baby). I think that I accidentally incubated all of these here because they are the advanced dream characters that I had on my mind all day after reading that thread.
"This is gonna be a slaughter..." I say. They nod in agreement.
"We need the dreamer there to help stop it." My dad said.
"I am not as strong as you all anyways."
"We need you there." he says.
They all take off flying and I follow them. As we get close to a huge building that doesn't exist near my city, they all land on the wall of the building and start walking up it. I dunno how they did it, but I change gravity for myself and connect myself to the wall and walk up it. There is a huge glass ceiling that we start walking around. Don't want them to see us.
"Should we go in here?" I ask Jason.
"No. We need to go to the top."
We keep going past the glass ceiling and phase through the top part.
I end up in a different room than everyone else. I notice that there is a bad guy. He looks like a good fighter. I don't want to waste an opportunity nad kill him with dream control. I look at my arm and change my arm so that it doesn't exist. I start fighting him. He runs at me and I grab an arm of his and spin his body. I then grab his throat and pull it towards me. As soon as it gets to me steps around my leg and pushes hard, making me hit the ground. He jumps on top and Jason kicks him off.
"haha, you need some practice before trying that." He says "you could fight him all day and not get any better without training. Watch and use this next time."
"But you have both arms." I say.
"Just watch." he says.
The enemy gets up and Jason and pulls out a knife. Jason side steps and grabs him by the throat.
"They won't resist as long as there is pressure here, you stopped putting pressure last time." He keeps pushing backwards and the guy is bent over walking backwards "If he can't get his balance for a second, then you have him." He runs him into a counter and it knocks the guy on the ground. Jason lets him get back up and is laughing.
He waits for Jason to attack and Jason steps forward and throws a quick punch at the enemy. The enemy sidesteps and jumps at Jason with the knife. Jason moves the same arm that he threw the punch with and puts him in a quick headlock.
"Same basic principal, keep him off balance." he keeps pulling him further and further back while the enemy can't get his footing. Jason throws him over a ledge I think that he might have made a second earlier.
"We don't have much time." he says.
We go through the door into a big chamber. J and Dad already beat everyone there. I look at the computer that has the order to execute all the people that have all gathered. There is nothing that we can do here. How did these people get in this much trouble in the first place? My Dad is supposed to be in charge of Zφdra. I see a machine that looks like a time machine. I look at the settings and notice that the people had gone back in time and changed how Zφdra worked. I click a few of the buttons and reverse previous time changes. The world around me starts changing. I walk outside and still see the lines of people. I go back and click some more buttons. I put my dream energy into fixing it since the computer seems to have broken down. All the lines of people switch to all types of people. That means that there still might be a slaughter, but it won't be genocide. I know now that I have to get to the party and actually use more dream powers to stop it. I wake up.
New personal task = Fight Fryingman in a dream.
I am betting on tonight as well.
01-27-2015, 07:11 PM
fogelbise
Hey Sensei or anyone...I entered the void twice during a lengthy lucid period. Would you count more than one LD or chaining or just call it one LD? (Figuring out my points now).
01-27-2015, 07:45 PM
PercyLucid
That reminds me, I forgot to add my 5 pts for the bet!
Now I need to post my WILD :D I could have Astral Projected, but since we have the contest, I WILDed into a long nice dream :D
I am still writting it down lol. We didn't have our yugioh match, but you came in my dream and we fought some pirates :D
Extra WILD +5
Full Dream +1
Advance Flight +10
Stabilize +1
Incubation Task +15
Interact with DC +2
Eat something +4
Advance Summoning +10
Element Manipulation +8
Team mate in dream +7
Second team mate in dream +3
Enemy in dream +5
Second enemy in dream +3
Third enemy in dream +3
Fight the enemy +20
Pillow fight +10
DJ Comments (# comments - I will convert to points and add them at the end of competition): 14 comments
Total nights: 3 nights
Total points today (in this WILD): 107
Grand total points: 274pts
New incubation goal: Maximilion Pegasus
Bet for a lucid dream tonight.
Night 1: 16.5
Night 2: 0.5
Night 3: 4
Competition so far: 21 points
Fragment in case anyone's interested:
A vague memory of playing with a laptop that came into pieces and apparently the warranty was void because I played too much with it, oops!
SammyTheSnake
01-27-2015, 09:27 PM
Sensei
Quote:
Originally Posted by fogelbise
Hey Sensei or anyone...I entered the void twice during a lengthy lucid period. Would you count more than one LD or chaining or just call it one LD? (Figuring out my points now).
I generally leave the scoring as a personal thing as much as possible. It kind of depends on your thoughts. Do you think of the void as a waking then chain. If you think of it as just part of the dream, then it is just part of the dream. :)
@percy
Go ninjas!
01-27-2015, 10:45 PM
Pickman
Night 3: it got better
3 full dreams = 3 points
1 fragment = 0.5 points
WBTB fail = 2 points
Total: 5.5 points
01-27-2015, 11:11 PM
fogelbise
^^Thank you Sensei :) I was also looking over the rules after writing that question and it does say awakening. It might have been a period of NREM but I never felt myself back in bed so just going to count it as one longish LD. I posted my DJ in my DJ section earlier but just now getting back to add up the points.
Finally LD points! :) I was concerned at WBTB since I was way groggy after setting an alarm again after waking too early naturally.
Spoiler for Math for Night Total = 70.5pts:
3 dreams, 1 fragment, wbtb, 5 DJ comments from competition with LD's: 6.5pts
DILD=10pts
RC=1
Interact DC=2
Flying=4
Super Strength=4
Basic Summoning=4 (summoning time stopping watch)
Use Electronic Device=4 (time stopping watch)
Time Control=10
Challenge Task=20pts (rating=10x2, Grandmother's hands felt so lifelike and wonderful! Not end of week-but this is my choice!)
3 Step; Step 1=5
Night Total=70.5pts
Comment if you wish at link above or quick view here:
Spoiler for Lucid Dream:
~610am Wake from longish LD string. Work meeting scene. The board member shouldn't need to take video. CW there. I have a headache (bleeding through from IWL?) and massage my temples. Next memory is FA caught by "record skipping" FA. I am arriving to the wake up sensation at least 3 times in quick succession each lasting about the amount of time it takes for a vinyl record to rotate once...and repeating like a skipping record! I get up out of bed happy to have received this gift in this FA. As I make my way through the house with visuals not perfect I get the partial visual of my sleep mask covering my face as I walk, and I rip it off and throw it behind me. As I get to the front door I see there is a note on an index card by the door. I pause for a moment thinking if I'm awake I don't want to open the store and leave it open or unlocked putting my family security at risk so I better RC. I start to do the finger through palm and as it shows I'm awake I realize how inconsistent that one is and just look at both my hands but focus on my left one where one of my middle two fingers was noticeably longer than IWL . I grabbed the note by the door and start to read it but then look down what looks like an apartment building hall and the note is narrated to me in what is supposed to be my wife's voice saying "today is the day to bring out the garbage."(which it is!) I float fly through multiple halls and it is completely barren so far. I quickly peek over an overlook down to the floor below me hoping to catch a DC down there but it is also barren. I fly down to the lower floor and explore a little bit finding what looks like a door to the outside and when I open it it is a bright sunny summer day. I look across a big grassy open park-like area and see a building on the other side of it with lots of DC's gathered inside but starting to come out. I dump off all my clothes feeling free and fly their way thinking about what kind of reactions I might get. I approach a couple of young women and start to interact with them telling them it's time to remove their dresses but I seem to be too much inside my head thinking about something and the visuals fade but I do not fear waking up but rather hang on for the visuals to come back. (Something I am getting better and better at and following Sageous' suggestion to avoid following the more common path back to your sleeping body-NREM thread, possibly NREM reality check thread). During this quiet time in a void I reflect on the fact that I didn't get to any competition goals. The visuals eventually come back and I soon have a vivid sunny summertime scene again but this time it seems like I'm at of family reunion. I'm looking around at all of the DC's enjoying this vivid beautiful world and I look over to my right and see my grandmother who passed away several years ago sitting down and I go to greet her. It is so wonderful to see you I tell her as we each clasped the others hands facing each other. It's so feels like her hands warm and wrinkly! (I am choking up while reliving this lucid moment while transcribing this dream!) I asked her to hold on a moment and I release her hands since I use a certain motion of my hands as part of my recall of goals. I think of my mnemonic (memory) pegs and peg number 1 brings me to time control, stopping time. I know my trusty pocket watch with amazing time control is in my right hand and I start clicking it while looking around. At first it is not doing anything very much like the very first time I used this. I eventually get the DC's to freeze in time!..and they unfreeze as I release the "clicker." I play around with it a little bit more and then think about peg number 2 and decide to skip it and go to peg number 3. Neither 2 nor 3 are part of my 3 step task anyway only peg 1 then peg 6 and 8. I grabbed a football that is being thrown around and say check this out. I punt the ball with super strength way up into the sky and out of sight! Cool! I look back over at my grandmother and just behind her and to the right is my grandfather who passed away quite a number of years ago and who I thought about last time I thought about my grandmother and how I haven't been seeing him in my dreams. This time he is there!..but he starts morphing a little bit maybe looking more like his younger self when he was a teenager and then a boy! I grasp my grandmother's hands again realizing I should have spent more time in the dream with her asking her questions I'm saying what kind of responses I might get. The dream starts to fade. I hold on again and I arrive outside of a room indoors it's a little bit dark, dimly lit. There is a young black boy in the room and I walk in there and ask him what does he represent? He only says there's someone over here and I follow him around and out of the room and sitting on the bench is a short humanoid creature that looks like a weird boy, a little bit stocky with a large-ish head with dark short thick hair and black eyes. I asked him what it represents and try not to get freaked out by his unusual appearance and I realize I can wake up if I want to but I don't remember making the decision to. Either way I wake up for good this time. I think reading a couple of dream journals of other competition participants may have helped me recognize the false awakening at the beginning. One person, I forget who, was talking about some kind of incongruity being a common dream sign as a dream tries to adjust and readjust to fit the situation. Also maybe the same person or someone else mentioned how they handled a false awakening by quickly getting up and doing an RC when normally I would try to do a motionless RC but maybe I need to be more aggressive like I was when I noticed my FA and immediately took off.
01-28-2015, 02:56 AM
imazu
Well, I didn't get to take a nap and it's 7:49pm, so I lose my bet and 5 points.
Lost Bet: -5 New Total:52.5
I gotta get my groove on again dangit! I guess I've got stage fright.. :paranoid: lol
I was thinking about that today and I realized I've been putting too much mental pressure on myself when I go to bed. It has started to mess with my ability to relax and fall asleep, much less WILD. I just need to let go, and I'll be able to sink down into lucid land again~ :sleepmeditate2:
01-28-2015, 04:35 AM
OneUp
Night #3
3 full NLDs: 3 points
2 frags: 1 point
New total: 22 points
Almost got lucid a few times last night guys, I know I'll become lucid tonight!
01-28-2015, 04:59 AM
Antoia
Night 3
Well, I say night... I pulled an allnighter and went to sleep at 10 am. Yikes. Surprisingly, my recall wasn't that bad. Missed an FA, though...
Interact with a DC - 2
RC/Stabilize - 1
Flying - 4
Unspecified Dream Control (Making music play from the sky) - 3
Advanced Summoning - 10
-->20
Lucid Dare (Create your own orchestral theme music, that follows you wherever you go, reacting to your actions and feelings. (Jenkees))
ToTM (Fireworks)
ToTY (Pandora's Box)
-->10 + 20 + 30 = 60
I bet that I will be lucid again tonight! (5 points) :)
01-28-2015, 09:18 AM
FryingMan
competition night #4, new total: 65.5
Well, lucid, finally. Was really bummed before bed that I haven't gotten lucid in 15 days with all my strong intention and day work, constant WBTB, etc. Add to that another WBTB insomnia occurrence tonight and it was shaping up to be a crappy night, except that right before WBTB I had an epic multi-scene non-lucid, with bizarre elements, although with a mundane base plot (gassing up the truck! :cackle:)
after WBTB and up for 2nd/3rd time after not getting drowsy in bed, got sleepy again at the computer (interesting that using the computer makes me sleepy more than just sitting in a dark room) and started yawning and headed BTB. Drifting near sleep for quite a long time, not dreaming. FINALLY fell asleep and dreamed.
2 dreams: 2
1 fragment
WBTB: 2
RC: 1
interact with DC: 2
DILD: 10
banished DCs: 4 (basic summoning: unsummon)
first 3-step tasks (DC interaction): 5
personal task: incubation (pool): 15
night #4 (today) total: 41.5
competition total: 24 + 41.5 = 65.5
new incubation: food court at the mall
edit: I'll need a couple more good-scoring LDs before I'll start betting. Wait a few nights, we'll see, maybe I'll work up the courage to risk some hard-earned points :).
01-28-2015, 10:23 AM
imazu
Welp, shoulda bet on tonight. Bad recall and didn't get much of anything done, but got lucid! Lol. I'm doing a WBTB right now because Curtis woke me up getting ready for work as usual. Here's my dream: ~Dee Jay~
* I did bet five points, but I intent to meditate and will attempt to WILD before 8pm, so if I fail I will subtract the 5 pts
New Incubation: Lord Ganesha Lucid Task: Visit a candy store and ask for the strangest candy they offer. Consume and describe! (Since I cannot count more ToTM for points... I might as well add it here -If allowed, if not, I'll change-
DJ Comments (# comments - I will convert to points and add them at the end of competition): 17 comments
Total nights: 4 nights
Total points today: 25
Grand total points: 299pts
01-28-2015, 01:29 PM
Nfri
4. day of competition = 0 points
Studying all night.
I dare anyone from upper league to like this post! :pissed:
01-28-2015, 01:37 PM
PercyLucid
That added to my weak night, bad day for Ninjas. I hope my later WILD and Sensei's dreamwork save the day :D
If you are tired, you can take a nap... naps count too :P At least go get a tiny tiny fragment for half point :D
01-28-2015, 02:03 PM
MrPriority
Busy days! Sorry I haven't been updating here daily. I will in the future! For now here are the last 3 days:
Day 2: 2 full dreams - 2 points
Day 3 : 1 full dream - 1 point
Day 4: Finally a good day!
Remember 3 full dreams - 3 points
Remember 1 fragment - Half a point
2 DILDs - 15 Points
RC - 1 points
Interact with Dream character x2 - 4 Points
Partial Transformation - 4 points
Okeedoke! Last sleep session of the night yielded some results: ~The Dreams~
1 Fragment, 1 Non-Lucid Dream - 1.5
WILD - 10
DEILD - 5
RC - 1
Phase Through Big Solid Object - 8
DC Interaction - 2
Advanced Flying - 10
Time Control - 10
First Task of 3-Step (Advanced Flying) - 5
Previous Total: 70.5 New Total:123
3-Step Task:
(X)Advanced Flying
( )Mass Telekinesis
( )Time Control
Changing my Personal Incubation.. again.. lol. Just not feeling the 20's thing anymore. Personal Task: Let go of everything except awareness and see where the dream takes me New Personal Incubation: The beach!!
01-28-2015, 05:34 PM
Pickman
Night 4: could have been better:
1 whole dream = 1 point
01-28-2015, 06:22 PM
sprada
Sensei's Competition 4th Night:
Previous points: 30 points
WBTB: 2 points
1 Dream: 1 point
Competition total: 33 Points
01-28-2015, 06:46 PM
Sensei
I remember two LDs last night... Neither one were great. One I seem to have forgotten most of it and the other I seemed to have quite low lucidity. :/
6 dreams = 6 points
WBTB = 2 points
DILD = 10 points
stabilize = 1 point
Unspecified dream control (Music changing) = 3 points
DILD = 5 points
stabilize = 1 point
Interact with DCs = 2 points
teleport = 7 points
TK = 4 points
unspecified dream control (scan) = 3 points
Bet = 5 points
Total = 49
Total Total = 197 + 49 = 246 points
Betting on tonight. :)
Spoiler for Lucids:
I am walking in a house and now somehow that I am dreaming. I stabilize. I hear music in the background (I think it was a song I know. Will post if I remember). I run and start making the song go louder and quieter with how intense I am running. I don't remember what happened next. :P
I am with my wife in a different world. Don't know how I got there, but I can guess. The displacement is enough to make me realize that I am dreaming, I stabilize.
"I want to get back to the other world, there is none of the kids here for us." She says. That is interesting enough for me to go with it.
"How are we gonna get back?" I ask.
"Pull it out and throw it on the ground! I really am worried about being here." I don't know why she was freaking out, it was just a normal looking room we were in. I feel something in my pocket. It looks like a huge black olive. I throw it on the ground and we teleport to a different world. We are in a room with a bunch of doors. I step outside and lose lucidity. I don't see my wife any more. I am working at a camp and a bus full of kids pulls up and start dispersing around the camp. I talk to the counselors and one of them seems suspicious. I am worried that it might be him that is taking them away. I keep following him and watch as he leads the kids back to the room and when I go in, it is empty. I realize that I am dreaming again and start thinking of ways to save them. My wife hands me another olive. "What if I can't find one over there? Not every world has a way to get back." I say.
"Then you will be there for those kids. If they don't have a way to get back, then you don't either." She gives me a hug. I start to wonder if I am in Zφdra, if so then I need to treat this more like a real place and a real teleport and if I can't get back I can't get back. Who knows...
I throw the olive down and am in a jungle world. I do some quick scans and try to find kids, but they don't seem to be on this world. There is an underground center for the small government that they have. I head down there and find a chamber with doors like the last one in my world. I take a door and immediately I am in another world. I start looking for the kids there, but it is a world too similar to mine. I don't sense any disturbances or anything. I don't recall what happened next, but I seem to have found one kid and he was the last one alive. I found an olive as well. I threw it on the ground and ended back in our world in the room with the doors. He was locked behind one of them and he was messing parts of the world up. I used TK to open another hole in the wall to get him out, but he was stuck in the controls. This kid was either evil from the start or has changed. He needed to be stopped. I destroy the whole room. I can't remember how. Then I wake up.
01-28-2015, 06:58 PM
StaySharp
My sleeping schedule is still somewhat messed up and my alarm didn't get me up, oh man.
Another 7 fragments and 2 full dreams make for 14,5 points total.
01-28-2015, 07:18 PM
Nightfeather
Night 4:
4 fragments - 2 points
New Total: 14.5 + 2 = 16.5 pts
I should stop envying the upper league and get some lucids of my own.
:muffin: (<- whatever this means)
Points:
2 Full Dreams: 2 pts
Incubation Task: 15 pts
Many failed WBTB: 2 pts
Total for Day 4: 19 pts
Competition Subtotal: 91 pts
Progress on Personal Tasks
Three-Step Task: (X) Advanced Summoning ( ) Object/DC Changing ( ) Advanced Flying
Lucid Task: ( ) Pet a Platypus
Incubation Task: (X) TARDIS (X) Family Cabin ( ) The Cretaceous!
DJ Comments So Far (not added to total yet): 4
Gonna go ahead and bet on tonight. Hopefully it will be much better than last night DX
01-28-2015, 07:46 PM
fogelbise
Seems I was only semi-lucid last night. Woke naturally too early again but anticipating the follow up alarm seemed to keep me awake and got up again to go ahead and do an early WBTB that was too long. Listened to this new Robert Wagoner interview...did you know (for an LD author) he only averages about 4 LD's per month? Still a good mentor for what to do once lucid. Interview: Iowa Public Radio
Night 4: 2 dreams, 2 fragments, wbtb, 5 DJ comments=6pts + 82.5 pts previous total = 88.5pts
*I know it is only 1 point for every 5 dream journal comments but I think it is good in the way Sensei pointed out but I can also learn from other people's experiences even if they are newer to lucid dreaming than I. I may see something they did that I've never tried or I may be reminded of how it was when lucid dreaming was newer for me, opening up avenues for better understanding of my own processes. You definitely also learn things from the more experienced LD'ers. tldr...
01-28-2015, 07:47 PM
bemistaken
Date: 1/27/2015
Method: WBTB MILD (fail)
Total Sleep Time: 7ish
Full dream remembered
I woke up to hearing some animal make a weird noise by my bedroom window. I looked at the window and found that it was a pit bull coming through the window screen. I ran to my husband screaming saying a pit bull is trying to come through our window and he went over to investigate. I ran out the bedroom and told him to come out of there before it gets through the window! I wanted to lock the pit bull in the bedroom so he couldn't hurt my kids. As my husband came running out of the bedroom, he stopped short and turned around and started laughing. I asked him what the hell is he laughing at and he stated those were not pit bulls but piglets. I looked behind him scared as hell only to see piglets...yes, piglets.
Full dream remembered:
Went to church and needed to step back out of church to go to my car to get something. I saw huge peaches falling down from trees and wanted to go eat one. I picked one up off of the ground and decided to get more. I saw this lady looking out of her window from her home at me picking up peaches. I asked her if it was ok for me to get the peaches. She stated that I can only get the ones that fell on the ground. I told her that was what I was doing in the first place. After I got around 2 or 3 handfuls, she said she would go get me a bag to put them in. Her yard worker came to clean away the rotten peaches and he then stopped her and asked if she would mind filming a short video of him speaking. She hesitated, but said yes. The scene changed and all I remember is seeing the video the woman took. In the video, the yard person ended up killing the woman so I could pick all the peaches I wanted...creepy.
WBTB fail: 2 points
Full dream remembered: 1 point
Total: 3 points
Total Competition Points: 12 ½ points
01-28-2015, 08:18 PM
PercyLucid
** I subtracted 15 points from my previous post since it is only one incubation per night ***
I did a meditation-nap-WILD and here are the results.
DJ Comments (# comments - I will convert to points and add them at the end of competition): 18 comments
Total nights: 4 nights
Total points this WILD-nap: 36
Grand total points: 335 pts
01-28-2015, 10:45 PM
spellbee2
Had a late night last night, so I didn't get much sleep...
1 dream: 1 pt
Night Total: 1 pt
Competition Total: 53.5 pts
01-29-2015, 12:19 AM
imazu
Bahaha!! I met Percy while we were both napping! Nothing happened though, as far as I can recall. Recall sucks pretty bad at the moment.. ~Dreem~
Fragment - .5
DILD - 5
DC Interaction - 2
Meet Enemy - 5
Previous Total: 123 New Total:135.5
I bet 10 points I'll become lucid before 8pm tomorrow night! Just wanted to include a possible nap.. If this is not okay, just lemme know! :)
9 DJ Comments so far. 5 have been added to my Total as 1 point.
01-29-2015, 01:06 AM
Nfri
new personal : create inspiration for a logo of our new magazine
incubation : granma's house
betting
(galantamine cooldown ready and also expecting rem rebound)
01-29-2015, 03:29 AM
bemistaken
Thank you to Frying Man's "2015 Year of the Breath".
Date: 1/28/2015
Sleep time: None, this all happened during meditation (MANTRA: "I am my breath")
WILD + DEILD (RC)!
Was going to take a nap, but instead decided to meditate instead using my breath as my anchor. I focused on my breath going through every pore of my body. I have been reading Frying Man's "2015 Year of the Breath" and I wanted to practice starting off small by focusing on my own breath. Also, had WILDing on my mind all day long, so intent was there. During my breath meditation, maybe 15 minutes in my mantra I began to feel vibes and concentrated on third eye and vibes became stronger and I was out in my bedroom. As soon as I ask for light, I heard my husband shouting in the next room at the TV (games was on) and it scared the sh#t out of me and I was back in my body. No problem, DEILD my way back out and did a quick RC of levitation...success. I was in the void and I tried to 'feel' my way around, but it began to collapse. I was back in my body and could hear every damn thing going on in the house so I just gave up. I was happy I got this far! I will try again tomorrow...GO STONES!
I became lucid during my nap today guys! But I don't remember anything of the dream besides becoming lucid, so I'm not sure as whether I should count it. I know I'll get lucid tonight and remember it though.
Could you sensei or anyone update the scoring points in the OP for better clarity?
01-29-2015, 11:57 AM
Ctharlhie
Competition, night 5: Twin Peaks task, attempt 1 - New total=68p
Ok, fair to say I actually turned up to the competition last night! This my best LD of the year so far in terms of remembering goals, and a real vindication for my current LD practice. A shout out to Frying Man for his Year of Breath thread and his discussions there with Memm!
Spoiler for The Lucid Dream:
I'm at home with Mum and J. I cut one of them off mid-sentence to say, this is a dream! (10 for lucid +2 for wbtb) "Shut up, shut up," I say to them, like Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who. I have to remember my task... I want to go to Twin Peaks! There is a massive mirror in my living room (an actual WL feature - your reflection goes a bit "hall of mirrors" at the edges, great for making you reality check), I turn my back to it and say "Twin Peaks", then turn and look. I think maybe I can see a scene interposed beyond the reflection of the room. I take a running jump and dive at it, like a swimmer... and hit hard resistance. I bounce back. And try again. I go clean through. But I'm stood by the side of a random highway (Teleport = 7p), hardly what I had in mind. I turn away from the road and see a row of victorian terrace houses. I enter the nearest one and I'm back in my house. My Mum says she's made coffee for everyone, so I think I'll try some to check of the eat something task. It's lovely and warm and tastes like really nice filter coffee (Eat something = 4p). "Damn fine coffee!" I say, like special agent Dale Cooper from the show. My mum disagrees with me, saying it tastes like gross instant coffee (Interact with DC = 2). I go back into the living room and this time reality check and stabilise some (1p). I take another running jump and dive, but this time I'm in the void, and I can tell I've woken myself up. I hold tight, feeling residual REM atonia, and try to flash some images from the show, but end up transitioning back into my living room (dream chaining = 2p). I try a different tac, taking the TV remote and trying to navigate through the menus to Twin Peaks (Interact with electronics = 2). But I only succeed in scrolling through picture and sound options and fucking up the display. In frustration I try once again with the mirror and wake up for good.
Previous total = 3.5
+0.5 for fragment = 4
+2 for 2 dreams = 6
+2 for WBTB = 8
+10 for DILD = 18
+7 for teleport = 25
+4 for eating something = 29
+2 for interacting with a DC = 31
+1 for stabilising = 32
+2 for dream chaining = 34
+4 for interacting with electronics = 38
+5 for 1st 3 step task = 43
+10 for 2nd step task = 53
+15 for 3rd step task = 68 New Total=68p
01-29-2015, 12:01 PM
KonchogTashi
Score update:
WBTB: 2 pts.
1 dream: 1 pt.
Night total: 3pts.
Running total: 15.5 pts.
01-29-2015, 12:26 PM
JoannaB
The previous night I had no recall. Tonight one fragment (0.5pts). Total: 5.5 points
Problem: I am addicted to the TV series Heroes lately and I watch it too much, go to bed late, and that's interfering with my recall. Yikes. Addictive personality. I don't do drugs though unlike the Beatles who did lots of those. Go Beatles
01-29-2015, 01:32 PM
sprada
Sensei's Competition 5th Night:
Previous points: 33 Points
1 Dream: 1 point
2 Fragments: 1 point
Competition total: 35 Points
01-29-2015, 02:19 PM
imazu
No lucids yet for this new 24hrs, but my recall is much better! I just needed to chill lol. ~Dreemy~
3 NLDs - 3
WBTB - 2
Previous Total: 135.5 New Total: 140.5
Reminders: Ongoing bet: 10 points to be lucid before 8pm tonight Personal Task: Let go of all except awareness and see where the dream goes Personal Incubation: Beach DJ Comments: 9 (5 have been added to my total as 1 point)
01-29-2015, 02:42 PM
FryingMan
Quote:
Originally Posted by blobularwindmil
Ongoing bet: 10 points to be lucid before 8pm tonight
Betting is exactly 5 per night (no more, no less), as clarified in the updated OP.
edit: well it's a bit unclear still since the initial wording is you can "get up to 5 points," but the subsequent wording says you gain or lose 5 points based on the result. But you can't bet more than 5.
01-29-2015, 03:32 PM
spellbee2
Life's been too busy lately to get any real sleep, so I expect this trend to continue to at least until Sunday...
Recall is building up again! In a few days I'll be back up too loads of dreams recalled! Also got close to a lucid again. Competition really does bring out the best in me:D Thanks again Sensei (and helpers!). I'm definately having fun so far!
New Total: 38,5 points
01-29-2015, 06:21 PM
imazu
Quote:
Originally Posted by FryingMan
Betting is exactly 5 per night (no more, no less), as clarified in the updated OP.
Oh! I never looked at the update... oops. Okay 5 points then. :P
01-29-2015, 06:23 PM
Sensei
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ctharlhie
+2 for interacting with electronics
+4 for interacting with electronics
Tonight
5 dreams = 5 points
WBTB = 2 points
incubation task = 15 points
Lost bet = -5 points
total = 17 points
Total total = 263 points
Spoiler for Incubation:
I am with my wife as a companion with Dr. Who (Tennant). He takes us to a normal world where we all get a night's sleep, but a guy attacks the Doctor and the Doctor uses a device to teleport us all into the TARDIS. I ask him if we are going to fix the world, but he says that their problem is with him and they will be fine without him there. He takes us to another world and as soon as we are there he sits us down.
"This world is run in simulations, we can only change the world in here." He says and puts a controller in my hand and a visor over my eyes. A game starts and I am trying to talk to people, but everyone has guns, and there is a safe zone for talking and a not safe zone for playing. No one will talk to me unless I prove myself in game. I go through an entire game and don't die. They all seem to have a lot of respect for me after that. The Doctor comes in and starts questioning people and I wake up.
New Incubation:
Phoenix
Bet 5 on tonight.
01-29-2015, 08:07 PM
Nightfeather
Night 5:
2 fragments - 1 pt
Total: 17.5 pts
01-29-2015, 09:49 PM
fogelbise
Very nice recall but no LD...hmm...(a very long dream, a long dream and a medium-length dream + 2 fragments)
Upper League - Expert
Pirates
Team Score: 123 (they are a little under updated)
Ninjas
Team Score: 278
Individual Scores
PercyLucid 335
Sensei 263
AnotherDreamer 250
Nfri 234.5
blobularwindmil 140.5
fogelbise 94.5
dolphin 8 points (he has been away for a few days on vacation)
Middle League - Intermediate
Montagues
Team Score: 44
Capulets
Team Score: 30
Was busy yesterday & today, didn't get much sleep. Recall suffered ;-;
1 fragment - 0.5 pt
Night total: 0.5 pt
Competition total: 26 pts
Was a weird dream though. Something about space and Samantha Carter finding the function for width and "setting columns a, 2b, 10 and 12 to 0 (but not column 14)." And apparently there was a function that made you loyal...
It seems like math is haunting my dreams .-. (Getting close to science though maybe... science is cool.)
01-29-2015, 11:38 PM
PercyLucid
Okay, so here comes the stats for the day for me, and after this post... bed time. I had the busiest day today... no time for my nap-wild and not even time to meditate. Had a lot of stuff to do in the morning and the amount of work I had in queue took all my afternoon and evening, but it was an okay night, nothing amazing but at least some points added.
Sadly, I forgot to post my bet, so too bad... no bet points added, but for the record. I bet I will LD tonight
DJ Comments (# comments - I will convert to points and add them at the end of competition): 21 comments
Total nights: 5 nights
Total points this night: 40
Grand total points: 375 pts
01-29-2015, 11:45 PM
bemistaken
Date: 1/29/2015
Method: WBTB MILD (fail)
Total Sleep Time: 4 hours, not enough!
Full dream remembered Most Stupid Way Ever I Missed Becoming Lucid! :doh:
I was dreaming someone was trying to teach me how to fly when lucid. The dream was so real, I could feel the wind blowing in my face and this person would hold my hand and take me higher and higher in the sky. How can something you desire be so plainly in your face that you just don't get it? How could I not become lucid during this??? I even remember saying the word 'LUCID' and still didn't get lucid! How can that be??? :cry:
For some reason, the dream started with me continuously falling back to the ground every time I took flight, so this person (don't know who she was) was flying like a bird in the sky and came down and took me by the hand and said she was going to show me how to fly...it was absolutely beautiful :).
I WILL BE LUCID TONIGHT!
Dream remembered: 1 point
WBTB Fail: 2 points
Total 3 points
Total Points for Competition: 31 ½ points
01-29-2015, 11:46 PM
PercyLucid
Forgot to say, my new incubation: Majora's Mask (the moon)
01-29-2015, 11:54 PM
imazu
Got a nap, but no lucid. Recall was okay. ~Derp~
2 NLDs - 2
lost that freaking bet again!! - -5
Previous: 140.5 New Total: 137.5
01-29-2015, 11:59 PM
Nfri
I love lucid dreaming.
I love you, because you are lucid dreamers, and we help each other!
I try to do my best. Last couple of days I'm having often-ly lucid dreams and it manifest in my waking lucid living. I feels so good and different!